Babylon Berlin (Germany, with subtitles), a lavish limited series crime drama set in the decadence and depression 1929 Weimar Germany, is based on the detective novels of Volker Kutscher and developed for German TV by Tom Tykwer, who also directs. It’s high-end detective fiction against the sprawling backdrop of the end of Weimer before the Nazis took over, and it’s the most expensive production made for German television to date. I’ve only seen the first two episodes but I was hooked after the first and committed after the second.

It is “lavish, epic, dizzyingly complex, and (through the four episodes sent to me early) as satisfying as anything I’ve seen in months. It’s the most bingeable new drama since The Crown,” proclaims Taylor Antrim for Vogue. “It’s also similarly expensive. One of the immediate pleasures of this sprawling crime story set in 1929 Weimar Republic Berlin—which is full of unknown-to-me, hugely talented German actors and has as thickly braided a plot as a Tolstoy novel—is the millions thrown at the screen (it’s reportedly the most expensive German-language show ever made).”

The Netflix original science fiction series Altered Carbon is based on the cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan but looks like it’s modeled on “Blade Runner.” Set in a future where human consciousness can be preserved and resurrected in new bodies, it stars Joel Kinnaman stars as a detective brought back from cold storage to solve the murder of a 25th century bazillionaire who now resides in a clone backup.

“Altered Carbon is often ridiculous, but damned if it isn’t the best-looking series Netflix has yet produced,” cheers AV Club TV critic Alex McLevy. “All of this stellar design (the show should probably be paying Blade Runner some licensing fees for borrowing its visual flavor) is in service of a story so convoluted that even the Metal Gear Solid series would recoil in distaste.”

Stana Katic is an FBI agent released after six years captive by persons unknown in Absentia, a spy thriller making its U.S. debut on Amazon Prime. The twisty mind-game mystery sends her seeking answers while she becomes a suspect in a serial killer case. 10 episodes on Amazon Prime.

On Body and Soul (Hungary, 2017, not rated, with subtitles), nominated for an Oscar in the foreign language film category, is the first feature from Ildikó Enyedi in twenty years. It makes its U.S. debut on Netflix.

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017, R) tells the strange but true (if somewhat embellished) story of the Harvard psychologist and outspoken feminist (Luke Evans) who created the first female superhero with the two women (Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote) he made his unconventional life with. Not a superhero film for kids. Reviewed on Stream On Demand here.

Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne are three Vietnam vets on a road trip to bury the son of a friend killed in combat in Last Flag Flying (2017, R) from director Richard Linklater.

Available same day as select theaters nationwide are the action dramas Lies We Tell (2018, not rated) with Gabriel Byrne and Harvey Keitel and Braven (2018, R) with Jason Momoa and the documentary The Cage Fighter (2018, not rated) about a blue collar worker (Joe Carman) who continues the punishing sport to the neglect of his family and his own well-being.

Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas (1990, R) was the filmmaker’s biggest hit in years and the greatest American gangster film since The Godfather.

And for kids and families, Cars 3 (2017, G) takes one more lap with Lightning McQueen around Pixar’s animated franchise of talking race cars. Streaming on Netflix.

Streaming TV: Retribution: Season 1, a four-part British crime drama originally titled One of Us, stars Laura Fraser as a detective looking into a murder connected to feuding families in the Scotland highlands. Also new:

True stories: The Force (2017, not rated) looks at efforts to reform Oakland’s police department and How the Beatles Changed the World (2017, TV-PG) looks at the social, cultural, and musical impact of the Fab Four.

Nostalgia: The long-running comic strip Blondie was brought to the big screen with Penny Singleton as Blondie and Arthur Lake as Dagwood in Blondie (1938), the first in a long-running series of B-movie comedies for Columbia Pictures. Amazon Prime has almost a dozen of the comedies, including Blondie on a Budget (1940) co-starring Rita Hayworth and Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) with Glenn Ford.

Streaming TV: Ray Winstone is private investigator in the British mystery series Vincent: Season 1 (2005) and Roger Moore is the dashing international adventurer in The Saint: Season 1 (1962). Also new:

Breathe: Season 1 (India, with subtitles), a drama about a cop searching for an organ donor for his dying son.

Amazon Prime / Hulu

A clever twist on the vampire movie, Daybreakers (2009, R) (Amazon Prime and Hulu) offers a world where the vampires rule as their blood supply (the human race) is dying off. Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe star.

Brian Cox is the first Hannibal Lecter on the screen in Manhunter (1986, R) (Amazon Prime and Hulu), Michael Mann’s adaptation of “Red Dragon” with William Petersen as Will Graham.

Comedy: John Cleese is a proper British barrister tangled up with conniving jewel thieves in A Fish Called Wanda (1988, R) (Amazon Prime and Hulu) and Tom Berenger is a B-movie cowboy riding into modern western complications in the affectionate parody Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985, PG) (Amazon Prime and Hulu).

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Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. He writes the weekly newspaper column Stream On Demand and the companion website, and his work appears in Vulture, Turner Classic Movies online, Keyframe, and Parallax View.